Photo credit: NASAThe Raikoke Volcano on the Kuril Islands rarely erupts, as it most recently exploded in 1924 and in 1778. However, its dormant period ended around 4:00 a.m. local time on June 22, 2019, when a large plume of ash and volcanic gases shot up from its 700-meter-wide crater. This incredible image was captured […]
Blender is a “free and open source 3D creation suite.” Originally released in 1994 as an in-house application for a Dutch animation studio, Blender has gone on to become a staple in the animation community. The software is used extensively by NASA and has been part of projects such as Spider-Man 2, Captain America: The
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An illustration of the oasis on Mars, which has now dried up (Image: Nasa) A mysterious ‘oasis’ has been found on the surface of Mars, raising hopes that evidence of life may also one day be found on the Red Planet. The Nasa Curiosity Rover has found traces of ‘shallow, salty ponds that went through
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NASA NASA has taken delivery of its all-electric X-57 “Maxwell” aircraft, taking the agency a step closer to comprehensive testing of its first all-electric experimental aircraft. Several years in development, the X-57 was delivered by Empirical Systems Aerospace of San Luis Obispo, California, in the first of three configurations as an all-electric aircraft, known as
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A composite image showing t2I/Borisov (Image: Gemini Observatory /NSF /AURA) Astronomers have made the ‘historic’ discovery of toxic gas in a comet that’s the second intersteller ‘visitor’ spotted in our solar system. Last month, 2I/Borisov was spotted travelling through humanity’s cosmic neighbourhood during its long, lonely journey through space. Now an international team has spotted
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NASA’s InSight lander may be struggling with its stuck drill, but while it is stuck in place on the Martian surface it’s still collecting a ton of useful scientific information about the planet. This week NASA released a unique set of sounds collected by the lander from its time on the red planet. InSight’s first
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Three of the vehicles to be used for testing space technologies are Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo rocket plane, Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship and Masten Space Systems’ lander vehicle. (Virgin Galactic / Blue Origin / Masten via NASA) NASA’s Flight Opportunities program has selected 25 promising space technologies for testing aboard aircraft, high-altitude balloons and suborbital
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NASA’s Juno mission, launched in 2011, has collected a wealth of information about Jupiter since it arrived in 2016. It has discovered unexpectedly storm-free poles, learned about the planet’s complex weather system, observed bizarre geometric storms, and captured some truly beautiful images. And this week the craft it pulled off a feat of precision engineering,
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This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Over the weekend, Elon Musk unveiled the first Starship prototype SpaceX has built. The company has set an ambitious test schedule for itself, with the vehicle possibly making a limited flight as early as November. The so-called Starship is actually
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An optical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, Camilo Mejia Prada, shines a light on the interior of a testbed for an instrument called a coronagraph that will fly aboard the WFIRST space telescope. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Matthew Luem For the last few years, NASA has been quietly working away on a new space telescope
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